Working through section 20. I was all ready to finish this out and when I went to rivet the bulkhead to the main center section the rivets called out were too short. I'll have to wait until I can get the correct rivets to finish this part. I'll go as far as I can by robbing other parts from the kit. Very few places have had any issues with this kit but it's clear from the work they did at the factory that they used the correct rivets and so will I.
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| Section 20 parts ready to assemble. |
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| All ready to rivet. |
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| Except the rivet the instructions call out are too short. The one on the left is what was called out, a 4-8. The one on the right is a 4-9 and produced the correct shop head. |
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| After removing the short rivet it's clear there isn't enough shop head. |
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| These rivets were set by the factory and have the correct dimension head. |
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| I set these six rivets with some 4-9's that will eventually be used to attach the floors so I'll have to order some more. |
I looked ahead at section 21 and it's a monster. I've decided to just work on a couple pages of parts at a time in section 21.
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| It's been nearly two years since I've seen these parts. Glad to finally be working on this section. |
